Crystal River current., 1887-01-29
COLORADO CONDENSED.


Over 200 men are at work in the
Midland shops at Colorado City.
Five gangs of Midland graders are
working within sight of Buena Vista.
The six National ba of Denver
have deposits to the am of $40, ,567,-
316.5s.
The name of Brush station on the
Julesburg branch of the Union Pacific, has
been changed to Mustees.
Some seven or eight men have SO far
lost their lives on the Midland grade by the
handling of giant powder.
S. A. Giffin has been appointed
Regent of the State University to take the
place of James Rice, resigned.
Mrs. Singleton, of Denver, gave
birth to triplets last week. The combined
weight of the three was % pounds.
An enormous quantity of snow has
fallen on the range between Twin Lakes
and Aspen and snowslides are feared.
The band from Telluride which at
tended the inaugural ceremonies is said to
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j. F. Cowles went to sleep on the
railroad bridge which crosses the Arkansas
near Pueblo, and was run over and killed.
During the past twelve months over
$4,000 have been expended in the erection
of dwellings and business houses in La
Junta.
The new iron bridge near Grand
junction was recently tested with weight
of twenty-five tons, which weight caused
DETECTION of three-tenths of an inch only.
Congressman Symes has introduced
a bill in Congress granting to the Utah
Midland Railway Companythe right of way
through the Uncompahgre and Uintah re-
servations.
A corps of Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe engineers have commenced surveying
line north from Pueblo. 1t is not known
whether Denver or Colorado Springs is
their objective point.
People in Aspen are figuring on buy
ing in the Aspen Mining and Smelling COM
pany stock that is advertised for sale on the
18th. If it is sold in blocks, as advertised,
the bidding will be spirited.
The last spike on the Texas, Santa
Fe and Northern railway was driven Fri
day night and now Denver and Santa Fe
are connected by through railway. The
business men of the two cities propose cele-
brating the event in an appropriate man.
ner.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
at largely attended meeting held Thurs
day night, almost unanimously pronounced
itself in favor of the Interstate Commerce
bill, and telegraphed a request to the Colo
RADIO delegation in Washington to work and
vote for the bill.
The assessor of Pitkin county created
quite sensation by comparing the value Of
stock returned for taxation by Aspen mer-
chants with the amount of insurance they
carried on the same and the said merchants
are finding it a delicate piece of work to
account for the variation.
The work on the Midland tunnel
through the Saguache range is progressing
without interruption from both sides, and
the machinery is in excellent order. The
laboring forces have been selected from a
large number and are steady
Reports from correspondents show
that the fields of winter wheat in Ohio, Mich
igan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Mis-
souri, are very generally well protected with
snow. In AtchisOn, Dickinson, Lincoln,
NeoshO and Sedgwick counties in Kansas,
the fields are reported bare and ground dry,
with the crop looking poorly.
AT Il recent meeting Of the Land
Board application was received from the
Beaver Land Company for the purchase Of
{, ,5s5 acres in Fremont county. The COM
pany agrees to pay $3.50 per acre and all
costs of advertising. The secretary of the
Board was ordered to take the necessary
steps for offering the land fOr sale.
The total shipments of red sand
stone, gray lime, silica rock and quartz
rock from the Glencoe quarries for 1886 were
,319 cars, "a total weight of 16, ,465 tons. These
quarries furnished the red sand stone for
the Art building in Chicago, and are now
supplying contractors in Omaha, Kansas
City and Chicago, making daily shipments
to those cities.
A Hugo correspondent of the Elbert
Tribune says he recently came across
bunch of about 200 cattle which were being
herded by band of thirty wolves. Every
little while they would cut out a calf, throw
him, tear out his entrails, drink its blood,
and then hastily surround the then fleeing
cattle and repeat the performance. He
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